Grade 6 Flight Final Assessment

What is one important piece of information you know about the Wright brothers?

What are 3 properties of air and what do they mean?

An inflated balloons weighs down the meter stick more than the deflated balloon. What does this show?

• That air has mass

• That air has temperature

• That air has no weight

• That air is compressed

Gases, such as air, can be ______ (squeezed together) but liquids, such as water, cannot.

• exerted

• compressed

• squished

• floating

When you fill half of a plastic cup with water and place a thick piece of paper on it, then flip it over, the card sticks! This shows us that...

• air exerts pressure

• air takes up space

• air can be compressed

• air has mass

What are the 4 forces of flight?

What are 3 adaptations that birds have that enable them to fly?

In your own words, what is the fuselage of an aircraft?

In your own words, what are the flaps on an aircraft?

In your own words, what is a rudder on an aircraft?